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Whirlpool Plans to Lay Off 100 at Evansville

By Nina Settappa

Whirlpool Plans to Lay Off 100 at Evansville

June 18, 2010 Updated Nov 20, 2008 at 7:01 AM EST

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Whirlpool Corp. plans to lay off about 100 employees at its Evansville plant because of a dwindling demand for refrigerators.

About 170 others were laid off earlier, leaving some 1,260 workers at the Evansville plant, said Jill Saletta, the Whirlpool director of external communications.

She said the layoffs are considered temporary, and the employees may be recalled when conditions improve.

That means the 100 workers being cut here are not part of the 5,000 permanent job reductions Whirlpool is making at other plants throughout the world. Those cuts were announced last month, but company officials declined to say whether they would affect the Evansville plant.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)



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